New York Dining

bump.

going this weekend.

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Del Frisco's on 5th Avenue - the manage is from Lake Charles according to the OT.

also

a good pizza joint is

Patzeria Perfect Pizza Inc
231 West 46th Street
New York, NY 10036-1409
(212) 575-7646

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Rao's

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Good luck getting a table, and if you want Italian food, there are literally dozens of places that are better. Marea, Convivio, Peasant, Hearth, and others. My first choice for Italian if I were going to NYC tomorrow, would be Maialino in the Gramercy Park Hotel. I had one of the best dishes I've ever had at Marea: fusilli with red wine braised octopus with bone marrow, and I fricking hate octopus.

You can't go wrong with any Danny Meyer restaurant, Gramercy Tavern, Union Square Cafe, The Modern, and what I think is the best restaurant in NYC: 11 Madison Park.

If you want a steak, go to Sparks, or go to Peter Luger in Brooklyn.

Have a great time, and let us know where you go and how you liked it.

Yeah, it's a restaurant that's famous for being hard to get into. They essentially have a standing clientele and almost no open tables. I know several people who have been there and were completely underwhelmed.

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Good luck getting a table,

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No shite. Impossible.

Most of those are mid level places for NYC. EMP is definitely higher end. It's NY, so things are going to be relatively more expensive. But some of my favorite lower end places are:
Spotted Pig
Blue Ribbon - one of my favorites irrespective of price.
Shake Shack
Blue Smoke
'Wich Craft
Momofuku Ssam Bar, or Noodle Bar
Delis:
Zabars
Barney Greengrass

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Liuazza's by the track is pretty terrible

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all i know is the BBQ shrimp poboy i had was slamming

of course i had a few beers at that point... so canes woulda been slamming.

now we are talking

I'd eat cheap for lunch and splurge on a nice dinner or two.

Cheap lunches:
greys papaya
street meat (halal food)
pizza (joes around bleeker and 6th ave has good slices)
corner bistro (the port of call of NYC--good burgers and mcsorleys beer in a dive bar atmosphere)

for cheaper dinners, go ethnic (Indian, Korean BBQ, Chinese). You can also get steak frites at Les halles for under 25 bucks.

Make sure to do at least one nice place, like a gramercy tavern.

For breakfast, I would just do a bagel and coffee. Save the money for food you can't get in Louisiana. Sarah Beth's is a decent breakfast place, but overrated and overpriced in my opinion.